PAPER TOWNS “So this counts as first base, right?” If every teen movie ever made was thrown into a blender and pulverized into a thick white paste, and then that paste was reconstituted back into a movie, that movie would be Paper Towns. Its blandness is overwhelming, soporific, almost soothing—it is Every Teen Movie. And […]
Alison Hallett
Alison Hallett served nobly as the Mercury's arts editor from 2008-2014. Her proud legacy lives on.
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Pixels Wants Your Money, Dweebs
PIXELS Ashamed of being part of all this, Q*bert tried to duck out of sight. He wasn’t fast enough. There’s nothing to admire about Hollywood’s current, relentless flogging of “nerd culture”; it’s a straightforward lunch-money shakedown. Nerds are the original brand ambassadors, quick to define themselves by the stuff they buy, dutifully on board for […]
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Nerd Power
Pixels Wants Your Money, Dweebs
Pixels: Hey, nerds! Give us your money!
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Teen Town
Is Paper Towns the Blandest Movie Ever Made?
Is Paper Towns the blandest movie ever made?
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Movie Review: Gemma Bovery, A Remake No One Asked For
GEMMA BOVERY “Why yes, I did play Gretel in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters! Thank you for noticing!” A retelling of Madame Bovary, Gemma Bovery puts post-modern lipstick on a very tired pig. Can we just let the pig sleep, already? It’s hot out. When Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her husband move to the […]
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Arsenic and Old Ladies
Today in Unasked-for Remakes: Gemma Bovery
Today in unasked-for remakes: Gemma Bovery.
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Teen Movie; Quirky Misfits
Too Much Me and Earl, Not Enough Dying Girl
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has too much “me and Earl,” not enough “dying girl.”
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The Wolfpack‘s Unlikely Homage to Cinema
THE WOLFPACK Don’t get them started on how they feel about tipping. The documentary The Wolfpack opens on a boy sorting prop guns, reciting the name of the character to whom each weapon belongs: Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White. The Angulo brothers, cinephiles and shut-ins, are working on Reservoir Dogs. The seven Angulo siblings—six […]
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Wolves in the Attic
The Wolfpack‘s Unlikely Homage to Cinema
The Wolfpack‘s unlikely homage to cinema.
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Hungry Hearts Movie Review: Keep Chemicals Out of Our Babies!
HUNGRY HEARTS “My son will NOT be getting that toxic fluoride vaccine!” On paper, Hungry Hearts scratches out as an intriguing domestic-horror situation: New mom Mina (Alba Rohrwacher), freaked out about the medical establishment, goes overboard trying to keep her baby “pure.” Pretty soon she’s banning cellphones and refusing to feed him food she hasn’t […]
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Attack of the Indigo Children
Hungry Hearts: Keep Chemicals Out of Our Babies!
Hungry Hearts: Like Shit Portland Mamas Say: The Movie! But worse.
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Dad Bod vs. Hot Bod?
Results: Finally, Mumblecore for Gym Rats!
Results: Finally, mumblecore for gym rats!